The only thing better than this leak, will be the moment when I open the cover to the novel.

SheaHublin said:

Who said the novel had to have anything to do with Palpatine?

Um, Sue did.

Heh, I forgot about that. Still, it would be possible for the novel to keep Palps himself off-screen and just focus on Plagueis and whoever his Master was. Palpatine's true origins should stay mysterious...

Call me a pessimist but I won't be happy until I've actually bought the book and have it in my hands. It's still nineteen months away and could get delayed or even cancelled(again). Even worse, it could be horrible and/or incredibly short.

I hope they keep this in the "Dark Lord of the Sith" category of books. The Bane trilogy, along with Rise of Darth Vader were all great, and I'd like to see other Sith Lords fleshed out. I know others have mentioned before, and maybe we might see this after SWTOR is released, but a Revan/Malak book and/or Cognus/Milennial book would be cool. There are so many Sith to explore and I think that their personalities could vary enough to warrant novels.

Yay, here's hoping it turns out good! I'm almost afraid that it might've been better to leave Plagueis and Palpatine's origins alone, but Luceno is usually pretty dependable for a decent book. And if it clears up that Anakin wasn't created by a Sith (hopefully), that will definitely make this novel worth it. Nice to see it come back, here's hoping nothing else happens to it between now and 2012.

Here's praying that the novel focuses on Plague to the exclusion of Palp as much as possible, and ends loooong before any recorded Palp material.

IMO, Palp is the spider at the center of an enormous web that needs to be assumed to exist behind the scenes for me to be able to buy a lot of stuff we have been served. A novel describing the spinning of that web can only ever fail at accounting for such an unbelievable task. A continuity nightmare-in-waiting.

Here's praying that the novel focuses on Plague to the exclusion of Palp as much as possible, and ends loooong before any recorded Palp material.

IMO, Palp is the spider at the center of an enormous web that needs to be assumed to exist behind the scenes for me to be able to buy a lot of stuff we have been served. A novel describing the spinning of that web can only ever fail at accounting for such an unbelievable task. A continuity nightmare-in-waiting.

Luceno is the god of continuity. He basically makes it a habit to stick as many random characters/references into a story as possible. Then attempts to outdo this achievement by sticking even more references into his next novel.

Luceno is the god of continuity. He basically makes it a habit to stick as many random characters/references into a story as possible. Then attempts to outdo this achievement by sticking even more references into his next novel.

He has such a knowledge of the canon he can influence the references to create... continuity. He is so powerful and so wise, he can even prevent the continuity he cares about from dying.

Here's praying that the novel focuses on Plague to the exclusion of Palp as much as possible, and ends loooong before any recorded Palp material.

IMO, Palp is the spider at the center of an enormous web that needs to be assumed to exist behind the scenes for me to be able to buy a lot of stuff we have been served. A novel describing the spinning of that web can only ever fail at accounting for such an unbelievable task. A continuity nightmare-in-waiting.

Dude. It's Luceno.

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He's one author I feel I can completely trust with Star Wars and the EU.